Bio

As head of Finance for Woven Capital, Masashi “Masa” Odawara brings over 20 years of financial, asset management and information technology experience with firms including Neuberger Berman, Deutsche Bank and BlackRock. Prior to joining Woven Capital in 2022, Masa served as Neuberger Berman’s Head of Finance, East Asia, working with the East Asia management team to lead and oversee all Finance functions — covering financial planning and analysis, legal entity controlling and finance operations. Before that, he held various positions at Deutsche Bank in Finance and Treasury in Tokyo, New York and Frankfurt. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2012, Masa was at BlackRock, engaged in business finance, corporate strategy, and business development and project delivery in BlackRock Solutions. He started his career at eAccess, a startup that went public in 2003 and was later acquired by SoftBank. Subsequently, in the information technology industry, Masa led several IT and business process reengineering projects as project leader at Infosys. Masa received a bachelor’s degree in environmental information from Keio University. He is also a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.